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Friday, May 29, 2009

France. The President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, considers visiting on 29 June, the Feast of Peter and Paul, the Seminary for Priests Society of St. Pius X. in Econe in Switzerland. This has been reported by the usually well-informed French priest Claude Barthe on Wednesday in the French newspaper 'Présent'.

Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, the new prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and former Primate of the Catholic Church in Spain desr in an interview with Spanish television channel TV3, the killing of unborn children as "serious" as the thousands of child abuse cases which have been made public, reported by the "Süddeutsche newspaper reported. The thousands of cases of abuse of children in institutions of the Catholic Church in Ireland was not as serious as abortion. "What some (Irish) schools may be done, is not to be compared with the millions of lives destroyed by abortion ," said the cardinal, but he makes clear that the abuse of children in Ireland was subject to "absolute condemnation" . "We must apologize." Cañizares was appointed by the Pope to be Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship.

"Dr Joseph Shaw, LMS chairman, said: 'The glorious sight of the great chapel with Solemn Mass, two choirs, more than a score of priests in choir, and a good number of local faithful, was surpassed by the bustle of the enormous sacristy and the whisper of private Masses at innumerable altars in the early morning. What the LMS conference represented is the re-establishment of the Traditional Mass as part of the toolkit of parish priests. It was wonderful to see Ushaw College doing what it has done for two centuries: enabling the training of priests in the Church's great liturgical tradition.' The next conference will be in Hertfordshire from August 24 to August 28."

Full in the panting heart of RomeBeneath the apostle's crowning dome.From pilgrim's lips that kiss the ground,Breathes in all tongues one only sound: